On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:25:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >... > Full list of changes in compat 11 > ================================= >... > > - The cmake buildsystem now passes > > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run to cmake(1). > > > > Caveat: This option silently does nothing in cmake versions > > prior to 3.8. Please keep this in mind if your package is > > regularly backported to a suite (e.g. stretch-backports) > > where cmake is older than 3.8. >... > Backport availability > ===================== >... > *Caveat*: Packages using the cmake build system should be careful as > cmake in stretch does not respond to the > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run change in compat 11. If this is a > problem for your package, the package should probably stay at compat 10 > until buster is released.
Is anything preventing a backport of cmake to stretch-backports? This would allow debhelper to add Breaks on older cmake versions, which would also automatically handle all backports situations in a correct way. > Thanks, > ~Niels cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed